Pineywoods cattle are an endangered breed of “heritage” livestock that are descended from the original Spanish
stock left along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama by the Spanish explorers in
the early 1500’s. The cattle evolved naturally in the brushy wooded terrain of the Gulf Coast. They have evolved to
be naturally resistant to most diseases and are able to forage on rough vegetation that commercial cattle will not touch.
Pineywoods are also “dry land” cattle and have evolved to avoid predators by spending only a minimum of
time at their water hole. This makes them very low impact cattle, as they do not contribute to bank erosion and fouling of
streams like most domestic stock.